Gun control concerns

January 11, 2013

"Never let a crisis go to waste..." This famous quote by Obama's ex-chief of staff explains the current rush to control, limit, even confiscate private firearms. Using the public grief following the Sandy Hook school shooting, the gun banners are pushing forward with their radical agenda of banning private gun ownership.

Vice President Biden has been given the job of proposing new gun laws. If readers think the object of these laws is simply to ban high capacity magazines, or limit so called "assault rifles", they may wish to recall a recent quote by the VP: "Banning guns is an idea whose time has come."

We are all crushed by the recent shooting tragedy. But it is foolish to think that our children will be any safer because law abiding citizens are banned from owning firearms. Criminals and the mentally ill will neither read, nor be impressed by any law we pass. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin said it best: "Those who would trade their freedoms for security will have neither."

As said by Wayne La Pierre: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun." Logically, the real way to protect our schools is to have a trained, armed guard in every school building. Gun-banners scream at the mention of this idea; yet they have no problem with armed guards in social security offices, federal office buildings — or even their own workplace. Are our children not at least as important as government workers?

The current anti-gun hysteria has little to do with school safety. Remember; when it is life or death and seconds count, the police are just minutes away.